Phantom Nights
“They lived on a farm less than half a mile away from the church and graveyard at Cole's Crossing. Ike and two of his brothers, who had made their break away from furnish and shares in '37 with the aid of loans from FDR's Farm Security Administration, now leased some good bottomland along the Yella Dog. The brothers made out fine on the eighty-odd acres of corn in good times and squeezed by on the proceeds from a sawmill and a machine shop they also owned when the rains didn't fall in dry years ...like this one.
Ike had just begun to stir in his bed, as always—Sundays not excepted—anticipating his Dominecker roosters by about five minutes, when he heard something he hadn't heard for going on twenty years: the deep sound of the old iron church bell at Little Grove Holiness. It had been so long since that bell had rung he'd all but forgotten its particular tonal quality.
He was a good six foot six in spite of the shrinkages of age and numerous infirm joints, and at seventy still had a grip on all his precious faculties.MoreLess
Ike had just begun to stir in his bed, as always—Sundays not excepted—anticipating his Dominecker roosters by about five minutes, when he heard something he hadn't heard for going on twenty years: the deep sound of the old iron church bell at Little Grove Holiness. It had been so long since that bell had rung he'd all but forgotten its particular tonal quality.
He was a good six foot six in spite of the shrinkages of age and numerous infirm joints, and at seventy still had a grip on all his precious faculties.MoreLess
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